Work has started on the second office tower slated for the block of land between York and Simcoe fronting on Bremner.
The tower, currently named Bremner Tower, is slated for occupancy in 24 months, and will join the nearly completed
PwC Tower and the future 45-storey Delta Hotel to form part of what's being called Southcore Financial Centre.
The project is owned by the
British Columbia Investment Management Corporation and developed by
GWL Realty Advisors. The two office towers, totalling 1.4 million square feet of office space, were designed by KPMB. The Bremner tower, the larger of the two, will offer 700,000 square feet on 30 floors.
According to Mervin McCoubrey, senior vice president of development for GWL's Eastern Canadian division, all three buildings are being built with the environment very much in mind.
"We're building to LEED Gold standards," he says as he leads a tour around the unfinished interior of the PwC Tower, but adds that whether they get certification or not, their concerns and efforts are focused on that level of sustainability. The buildings will have roof water collection, which will be used both for toilets and to water the extensive wooded areas being built as third-floor terraces on all three buildings. Light sensors in the building will alter the artificial light levels based on existing natural light, and they'll be making extensive use of
Enwave's deep lake water cooling, doing their intake at night, so they can also make use the energy they use in the process at off-peak hours.
There will also be more than 130 interior bike parking spots in each of the two office towers, and the whole complex is connected directly to both the TTC and GO Transit.
Writer: Bert Archer
Source: Mervin McCoubrey
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